Thinking Italian Animals

Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film
Herausgeber: Amberson, D.; Past, E.

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Produktbeschreibung

This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK / Palgrave Macmillan
• 2014 edition
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781349498017
• ISBN-10: 1349498017
• Artikelnr.: 45081885

Autorenporträt

Roberto Marchesini, Scuola d'interazione uomo animale, Italy Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University, USA Gregory Pell, Hofstra University, USA Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University, USA Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University, USA Alexandra Hills, University College London, UK Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh, USA Daniele Fioretti, University of Miami, Ohio, USA Valentina Fulginiti, University of Toronto, Canada David Del Principe, Montclair State University, USA Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College, USA Serenella Iovino, University of Turin, Italy

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Mimesis: The Heterospecific as Ontopoetic Epiphany; Roberto
Marchesini Introduction: Thinking Italian Animals; Deborah Amberson and
Elena Past PART I: ONTOLOGIES AND THRESHOLDS 1. Confronting the Specter of
Animality: Tozzi and the Uncanny Animal of Modernism; Deborah Amberson 2.
Cesare Pavese, Posthumanism, and the Maternal Symbolic; Elizabeth Leake 3.
Montale's Animals: Rhetorical Props or Metaphysical Kin?; Gregory Pell 4.
The Word Made Animal Flesh: Tommaso Landolfi's Bestiary; Simone Castaldi 5.
Animal Metaphors, Biopolitics, and the Animal Question: Mario Luzi, Giorgio
Agamben, and the Human-Animal Divide; Matteo Gilebbi PART II: BIOPOLITICS
AND HISTORICAL CRISIS 6. Creatureliness and Posthumanism in Liliana
Cavani's The Night Porter and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò; Alexandra Hills
7. Elsa Morante at the Biopolitical Turn: Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Animal,
Becoming-Imperceptible; Giuseppina Mecchia 8. Foreshadowing the Posthuman:
Hybridization, Apocalypse, and Renewal in Paolo Volponi; Daniele Fioretti
9. The Post-Apocalyptic Cookbook: Animality, Posthumanism, and Meat in
Laura Pugno and Wu Ming; Valentina Fulginiti PART III: ECOLOGIES AND
HYBRIDIZATIONS 10. The Monstrous Meal: Flesh Consumption and Resistance in
the European Gothic; David Del Principe 11. Contemporaneità and Ecological
Thinking in Carlo Levi's Writing; Giovanna Faleschini Lerner 12.
Hybriditales: Posthumanizing Calvino; Serenella Iovino 13. (Re)membering
Kinship: Living with Goats in The Wind Blows Round and Le quattro volte;
Elena Past